genuflect

Shows like “Top Chef” teach us to genuflect at the altars of celebrity culinarians, viewing their restaurants and signature dishes as luxury experiences as opposed to showing regular folks how to think innovatively about dinner.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

Turn off your cellphones and get ready to genuflect because Patti LuPone, musical theater royalty, is heading to the Hollywood Bowl on July 30 for a one-night tribute to Sondheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023

It appeared in one of the thousands of recently released emails in which Dr. Fauci asserts in part: “I genuflect to no one but science.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021

“Instead, the faithful are requested to genuflect or make a profound bow as they venerate the cross,” said Archbishop Romulo Valles, who heads the bishops’ conference.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2020

Every time I stepped into his office, I felt the need to genuflect.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

Mapplethorpe genuflects at the altar of that icon with a platinum portrait of Warhol, backed by a halo of light and surrounded by silk panels that form a cross.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Without anything divine to revere, American home and landscape design largely genuflects at the altar of the market.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025

On arrival, Pope Francis is unlikely to follow his predecessor in kissing the tarmac at Dublin airport; at 81, he has one lung and weakness in his knees means he no longer genuflects.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2018

That it is an expressly Catholic organization, holding no territory, with its leaders bound by a vow of obedience to the Roman pontiff suggests, however, that this is a sovereignty that genuflects.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 1, 2017

During the Mass the priest frequently makes the Sign of the Cross, genuflects or bends the knee before the altar, strikes his breast, etc.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead

He hired people because they genuflected to him, not because they had any expertise.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2023

“Everybody sort of genuflected to Hazel because she was this little dynamo,” said David Peterson, a former Liberal premier of Ontario between 1985 and 1990.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

At the biggest annual festival in Gbaramatu, women danced and genuflected before the king.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2021

I don’t recall whether we rose and genuflected upon the arrival of Big John, but doing so would’ve been appropriate.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2020

The priest genuflected and prayed at the first fall of Christ.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

He’s genuflecting and appears penitent, it’s him with no public or private, shipwrecked in place in a way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

As the Washington Post's media reporter put it: "Everyone is genuflecting before the Pentagon powerhouse… America's new rock star."

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2023

Over decades of presidential campaigns, the Iowa way has been to hop from town to town, taking questions from all comers and genuflecting to the local culinary traditions.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

The figures, dubbed the “kneeling attendants” by curators, crouch as if genuflecting.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

But it was more like genuflecting in her presence.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez